| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
|---|
| The Awakening | Mike Newell | Charlton Heston, Susannah York | | [1] [2] |
| Battle Beyond the Stars | Jimmy T. Murakami | Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn, George Peppard, John Saxon, Sybil Danning | United States | Space adventure[3] |
| Beyond the Reef | Frank C. Clarke | Dayton Ka'ne, Maren Jensen | United States | [4] |
| The Blue Lagoon | Randal Kleiser | | United States | Romantic adventure[5] |
| The Blues Brothers | John Landis | John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd | United States | Adventure comedy[6] |
| Breaker Morant | Bruce Beresford | Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters | Australia | |
| | , Marcel Dalio | France | [7] |
| Caboblanco | J. Lee Thompson | | United States | [8] |
| Cannibal Holocaust | Ruggero Deodato | Carl Gabriel Yorke, Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi | Italy | [9] |
| Cloud Dancer | Barry Brown | David Carradine, Jennifer O'Neill, Joseph Bottoms | United States | [10] |
| The Courage of Kavik the Wolf Dog | Peter Carter | Andrew Ian McMillan, Ronny Cox, John Ireland | Canada | Family-oriented adventure[11] |
| Cuba Crossing | Chuck Workman | Stuart Whitman, Robert Vaughn, Woody Strode | United States
West Germany | [12] |
| The Curse of King Tut's Tomb | Philip Leacock | Eva Marie Saint, Robin Ellis, Raymond Burr, Harry Andrews, Wendy Hiller | United States
United Kingdom | [13] |
| Dead Man's Float | Peter Sharp | Sally Boyden, Greg Rowe, Bill Hunter, Bunney Brooke | Australia | [14] |
| Desperate Voyage | Michael O'Herlihy | Christopher Plummer | United States | [15] |
| Devil Hunter | Jesús Franco | Al Cliver, Ursula Buchfellner | France
West Germany
Spain | [16] [17] |
| The Dogs of War | John Irvin | | United Kingdom
United States | War adventure[18] |
| The Earthling | Peter Collinson | | Australia
United States | Adventure drama[19] |
| Eaten Alive! | Umberto Lenzi | Janet Ågren, Mel Ferrer, Ivan Rassimov, Me Me Lai, Robert Kerman | Italy
Spain | Jungle film[20] |
| The Empire Strikes Back | Irvin Kershner | | United States | Space adventure[21] |
| Escape from Hell | Edoardo Mulargia | Anthony Steffen, Ajita Wilson, Cintia Lodetti | Italy
Spain | [22] |
| Flash Gordon | Mike Hodges | | United Kingdom
United States | Space adventure[23] |
| Flatfoot in Egypt | Steno | Bud Spencer, Robert Loggia, Karl-Otto Alberty | Italy | [24] |
| The Gods Must Be Crazy | Jamie Uys | Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, N!xau | South Africa
Botswana | Adventure comedy[25] |
| The Green Horizon | Susumu Hani | | Japan | [26] |
| Hawk the Slayer | Terry Marcel | John Terry, Jack Palance | United Kingdom | [27] |
| Herbie Goes Bananas | Vincent McEveety | | United States | Family-oriented adventure[28] |
| High Ice | Eugene S. Jones | David Janssen, Tony Musante | United States | [29] |
| I'm Getting a Yacht | Sergio Corbucci | Laura Antonelli, Johnny Dorelli | Italy | [30] |
| The Island | Michael Ritchie | | United States | Sea adventure[31] |
| It Rained All Night the Day I Left | Nicolas Gessner | Tony Curtis, Louis Gossett Jr., Sally Kellerman, John Vernon | Canada
France
Israel | Adventure drama, romantic adventure[32] |
| The Ivory Ape | Tsugunobu Kotani | Jack Palance | United States
Japan | [33] |
| Jupiter's Thigh | Philippe de Broca | | France | Adventure comedy[34] |
| Kagemusha | Akira Kurosawa | Tatsuya Nakadai | Japan | [35] |
| Klondike Fever | Peter Carter | Jeff East, Angie Dickinson, Rod Steiger, Lorne Greene | Canada | [36] |
| The Last Flight of Noah's Ark | Charles Jarrott | Elliott Gould, Geneviève Bujold, Rick Schroder | United States | Sea adventure[37] |
| Life on the Mississippi | Peter H. Hunt | Robert Lansing, David Knell | United States | Family-oriented adventure[38] |
| Más allá de la aventura | Oscar Barney Finn | Catherine Alric | Argentina | [39] |
| Mondo Cannibale | Jesús Franco | Al Cliver, Sabrina Siani | France | [40] |
| The Mountain Men | Richard Lang | Charlton Heston, Brian Keith | United States | Western[41] |
| Pirates of the 20th Century | Boris Durov | Nikolai Yeryomenko Jr., Pyotr Velyaminov, Talgat Nigmatulin | Soviet Union | Sea Adventure[42] |
| Popeye | Robert Altman | Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Paul Smith | United States | Family-oriented adventure[43] |
| Raise the Titanic | Jerry Jameson | | United States | Sea adventure[44] |
| The Sea Wolves | Andrew V. McLaglen | Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven, Trevor Howard, Patrick Macnee | United Kingdom
Switzerland
United States | War adventure, sea adventure[45] |
| Skyward | Ron Howard | Bette Davis, Suzy Gilstrap, Clu Gulager | United States | [46] |
| Superman II | Richard Lester | Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Terence Stamp, Ned Beatty, Sarah Douglas, Margot Kidder | United Kingdom
United States | [47] [48] |
| | Marius Müller-Westernhagen | West Germany | Adventure comedy[49] |
| Tusk | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Cyrielle Clair, Anton Diffring | France | [50] | |
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
|---|
| La Chèvre | Francis Veber | Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu | France | Adventure comedy[51] |
| Clash of the Titans | Desmond Davis | Harry Hamlin, Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Burgess Meredith, Maggie Smith, Ursula Andress |
United States | Fantasy adventure[52] |
| Death Hunt | Peter Hunt | Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Carl Weathers, Angie Dickinson | United States | Western[53] [54] |
| Dot and Santa Claus | Yoram Gross | Drew Forsythe (voice), Barbara Frawley (voice) | Australia | |
| Dragonslayer | Matthew Robbins | Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, Ralph Richardson | United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure[55] |
| Escape from New York | John Carpenter | Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes | United States
United Kingdom | [56] |
| Excalibur | John Boorman | Nigel Terry, Nicol Williamson, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay | United States | Fantasy adventure[57] |
| For Your Eyes Only | John Glen | Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Julian Glover, Chaim Topol | United Kingdom | [58] [59] |
| The Fox and the Hound | Ted Berman, Art Stevens, David Michener | Mickey Rooney (voice), Kurt Russell (voice), Pearl Bailey (voice), Jack Albertson (voice) | United States | Animated film, family-oriented adventure[60] |
| Gallipoli | Peter Weir | Mel Gibson, Mark Lee | Australia | [61] |
| Goliath Awaits | Kevin Connor | Mark Harmon, Christopher Lee, Eddie Albert, Emma Samms, John Carradine, Alex Cord, Robert Forster | United States | [62] |
| Great White | Enzo G. Castellari | James Franciscus, Vic Morrow | Italy | [63] [64] |
| Green Ice | Ernest Day | Ryan O'Neal, Anne Archer, Omar Sharif | United States | Romantic adventure[65] |
| The Guns and the Fury | Tony Zarrindast | Peter Graves, Cameron Mitchell, Michael Ansara | United States | [66] |
| Heavy Metal | Gerald Potterton | | Canada
United States | Animated film, fantasy adventure[67] |
| The High Country | Harvey Hart | Timothy Bottoms, Linda Purl | Canada | Romantic adventure[68] |
| High Risk | Stewart Raffill | James Brolin, Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Ernest Borgnine, Lindsay Wagner, Cleavon Little, Bruce Davison | United States | Adventure comedy[69] |
| The Last Chase | Martyn Burke | Lee Majors, Burgess Meredith, Chris Makepeace, Alexandra Stewart | Canada
United States | [70] |
| Lion of the Desert | Moustapha Akkad | Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger, Irene Papas, John Gielgud | Libya
United States | [71] |
| Masada | Boris Sagal | Peter O'Toole, Peter Strauss, Barbara Carrera, Anthony Quayle | United States | [72] |
| Misterio en la isla de los monstruos | Juan Piquer Simón | Terence Stamp, Peter Cushing, Ana Obregón | Spain | Fantasy adventure[73] |
| Quest for Fire | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Everett McGill, Rae Dawn Chong, Ron Perlman | France
Canada | [74] |
| Race for the Yankee Zephyr | David Hemmings | Ken Wahl, Lesley Ann Warren, Donald Pleasence, George Peppard | Australia
New Zealand | [75] |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark | Steven Spielberg | Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, John Rhys-Davies, Denholm Elliott, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey | United States | [76] |
| Roar | Noel Marshall | Tippi Hedren, Noel Marshall, John Marshall | United States | [77] |
| Savage Harvest | Robert L. Collins | Tom Skerritt, Michelle Phillips | United States
Brazil
Kenya | [78] |
| Silence of the North | Allan King | Ellen Burstyn, Tom Skerritt | Canada | Adventure drama[79] |
| Sphinx | Franklin J. Schaffner | Lesley-Anne Down, Frank Langella, Maurice Ronet, John Gielgud, John Rhys-Davies | United States | [80] |
| Tarzan, the Ape Man | John Derek | Bo Derek, Miles O'Keeffe, Richard Harris, John Phillip Law | United States | [81] |
| Time Bandits | Terry Gilliam | | United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure[82] |
| Zorro, The Gay Blade | Peter Medak | George Hamilton, Lauren Hutton, Brenda Vaccaro | United States | Adventure comedy[83] | |
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
|---|
| Ace of Aces | Gérard Oury | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier, Rachid Ferrache | West Germany
France | Adventure comedy, war adventure[84] |
| The Beastmaster | Don Coscarelli | Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, Rip Torn | United States | Romantic adventure[85] |
| Conan the Barbarian | John Milius | Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Sandahl Bergman, Max von Sydow | United States | [86] |
| The Dark Crystal | Jim Henson, Frank Oz | Jim Henson (voice), Kathryn Mullen (voice), Dave Goelz (voice) | United States
| Fantasy adventure[87] |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg | Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote | United States | [88] |
| Falcon's Gold | Bob Schulz | John Marley, Simon MacCorkindale | United States | [89] |
| Firefox | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood | United States
Austria
Greenland | [90] |
| Fitzcarraldo | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, José Lewgoy, Miguel Angel Fuentes, Claudia Cardinale | West Germany | Adventure drama[91] |
| The Flight of Dragons | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. | | United States | Animated film, fantasy adventure[92] |
| Flight of the Eagle | Jan Troell | Max von Sydow, Göran Stangertz, Sverre Anker Ousdal | Sweden
Norway
West Germany | [93] |
| Hunters of the Golden Cobra | Antonio Margheriti | David Warbeck, Almanta Suska, Luciano Pigozzi, John Steiner | Italy | [94] |
| Ivanhoe | Douglas Camfield | Anthony Andrews, Sam Neill, James Mason, Olivia Hussey, Lysette Anthony, Julian Glover, John Rhys-Davies | United Kingdom
United States | [95] |
| The Last Unicorn | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. | Alan Arkin (voice), Jeff Bridges (voice), Mia Farrow (voice) Angela Lansbury (voice), Christopher Lee (voice) | United States
Japan
United Kingdom
West Germany | Animated film, fantasy adventure[96] |
| Les Maîtres du temps | René Laloux | | France
Switzerland
West Germany | Animated film, space adventure[97] |
| Mother Lode | Charlton Heston | Charlton Heston, Nick Mancuso, Kim Basinger | United States | [98] |
| The New Travelog to India | Kim Jeong-song | Yu Sang-gyeom, Yang Su-jin, Kim Yong-man, Ban Sam, Lee Jae-yeong | South Korea | [99] |
| Night Crossing | Delbert Mann | John Hurt, Jane Alexander, Beau Bridges | United States | [100] |
| Paradise | Stuart Gillard | Willie Aames, Phoebe Cates | United States | Romantic adventure[101] |
| The Pirate Movie | Ken Annakin | Kristy McNichol, Christopher Atkins, Ted Hamilton | Australia | [102] |
| Safari 3000 | Harry Hurwitz | David Carradine, Stockard Channing, Christopher Lee | United States | [103] |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Clive Donner | Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Ian McKellen | United Kingdom | [104] |
| Osamu Dezaki | | Japan | Animated film, space adventure[105] [106] |
| Nicholas Meyer | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalbán | United States | Space adventure[107] |
| The Sword and the Sorcerer | Albert Pyun | Lee Horsley, Kathleen Beller, Simon MacCorkindale | United States | Fantasy adventure[108] |
| Tangiers | Michael E. Briant | Ronny Cox, Billie Whitelaw, Glynis Barber, Ronald Lacey | United States
Morocco | [109] |
| Treasure of the Four Crowns | Ferdinando Baldi | | United States
Italy
Spain | [110] |
| The Year of Living Dangerously | Peter Weir | Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt | Australia | [111] | |
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
|---|
| Philippe de Broca | Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret | France | [112] |
| Banzaï | Claude Zidi | Coluche, Valérie Mairesse, Didier Kaminka | France | Adventure comedy[113] |
| The Black Stallion Returns | Robert Dalva | Kelly Reno, Vincent Spano, Allen Garfield, Woody Strode, Ferdy Mayne | United States | Family-oriented adventure[114] |
| Buddies | Arch Nicholson | Colin Friels, Harold Hopkins | Australia | [115] |
| Clash of Loyalties | Mohammed Shukri Jameel | Oliver Reed, John Barron, Ghazi al-Takriti | Iraq | |
| Les Compères | Francis Veber | Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Anny Duperey | France | Adventure comedy[116] |
| Conquest | Lucio Fulci | Jorge Rivero, Andrea Occhipinti, Conrado San Martín | Italy | Fantasy adventure[117] |
| El Norte | Gregory Nava | Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz | United States
Mexico | Adventure drama[118] |
| Fire and Ice | Ralph Bakshi | | United States | Animated film, fantasy adventure[119] |
| Gold Raiders | Chalong Pakdeevijit | Robert Ginty, Sarah Langenfeld | Thailand
United Kingdom | Action adventure[120] |
| Hearts and Armour | Giacomo Battiato | Rick Edwards, Barbara De Rossi, Zeudi Araya, Ronn Moss, Leigh McCloskey, Maurizio Nichetti, Tanya Roberts | Italy | [121] |
| Hercules | Luigi Cozzi | Lou Ferrigno, Sybil Danning, Brad Harris | Italy
United States | Fantasy adventure[122] |
| High Road to China | Brian G. Hutton | Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong, Jack Weston, Wilford Brimley, Robert Morley, Brian Blessed | United States | Romantic adventure[123] |
| The Killing of Satan | Efren C. Piñon | Cecile Castillo, Charlie Davao | Philippines | Fantasy adventure[124] |
| Krull | Peter Yates | Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Freddie Jones | United States
| Fantasy adventure[125] |
| Nate and Hayes | Ferdinand Fairfax | Tommy Lee Jones, Michael O'Keefe, Jenny Seagrove, Max Phipps | United States
New Zealand
Fiji | Sea adventure[126] |
| National Lampoon's Vacation | Harold Ramis | Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid | United States | [127] |
| Never Cry Wolf | Carroll Ballard | Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Zachary Ittimangnaq | United States | Adventure drama[128] |
| Octopussy | John Glen | Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kabir Bedi, David Meyer | United Kingdom | [129] |
| The Pirates of Penzance | Wilford Leach | Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt | United States | Costume adventure, sea adventure, swashbuckler[130] |
| Return of the Jedi | Richard Marquand | Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams | United States | Space adventure[131] |
| The Ruffian | José Giovanni | Lino Ventura, Bernard Giraudeau, Claudia Cardinale | France
Canada | [132] |
| Sahara | Andrew V. McLaglen | | United States | [133] |
| Lamont Johnson | Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald, Ernie Hudson, Michael Ironside | United States | Space adventure[134] |
| The Wicked Lady | Michael Winner | | United Kingdom | Adventure drama[135] |
| Yellowbeard | Mel Damski | Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Peter Cook, Marty Feldman, James Mason, John Cleese | United Kingdom | Adventure comedy[136] |
| Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain | Tsui Hark | Yuen Biao, Tsui Siu Keung, Sammo Hung | Hong Kong | Fantasy adventure[137] | |
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
|---|
| The Ark of the Sun God | Antonio Margheriti | David Warbeck, John Steiner, Susie Sudlow, Luciano Pigozzi | Italy | [138] |
| The Bounty | Roger Donaldson | Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier | United States | Adventure drama[139] |
| A Breed Apart | Philippe Mora | Rutger Hauer, Powers Boothe, Kathleen Turner, Donald Pleasence | United States | [140] |
| Conan the Destroyer | Richard Fleischer | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Wilt Chamberlain | United States | Fantasy adventure[141] |
| Dune | David Lynch | | United States | Space adventure[142] |
| The Dungeonmaster | Dave Allen, Charles Band, John Carl Buechler | Jeffrey Byron, Richard Moll, Leslie Wing | United States | Science fantasy adventure[143] |
| Hugh Hudson | | | Adventure drama[144] |
| The Hit | Stephen Frears | | United Kingdom | [145] |
| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Steven Spielberg | Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri | United States | [146] |
| Kim | John Davies | Ravi Sheth, Peter O'Toole, Bryan Brown, John Rhys-Davies, Julian Glover | United Kingdom | [147] |
| The Last Starfighter | Nick Castle | Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Dan O'Herlihy | United States | Space adventure[148] |
| | Claude Brasseur, Dominique Lavanant, Marius Weyers | France | [149] |
| The Master of Ballantrae | Douglas Hickox | | United Kingdom
United States | [150] |
| Les Morfalous | Henri Verneuil | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacques Villeret, Michel Constantin, Marie Laforêt, Matthias Habich | France | Adventure comedy, war adventure[151] |
| Nairobi Affair | Marvin J. Chomsky | | United States | [152] |
| The NeverEnding Story | Wolfgang Petersen | Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach | West Germany
United States | Fantasy adventure[153] |
| Helmut Ashley | | West Germany
Indonesia | [154] |
| A Passage to India | David Lean | Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Davis, James Fox, Alec Guinness | United Kingdom | [155] |
| The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak | Just Jaeckin | Tawny Kitaen, Brent Huff, Zabou Breitman, Bernadette Lafont, Jean Rougerie | France | Adventure comedy[156] |
| Romancing the Stone | Robert Zemeckis | Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Zack Norman, Alfonso Arau | United States | Adventure comedy[157] |
| Ronia, the Robber's Daughter | Tage Danielsson | | Sweden
Norway | Fantasy adventure[158] |
| Sheena | John Guillermin | | United States | [159] |
| Leonard Nimoy | William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, Christopher Lloyd | United States | Space adventure[160] |
| Sword of the Valiant | Stephen Weeks | Miles O'Keeffe, Sean Connery, Cyrielle Clair, Trevor Howard, Peter Cushing, John Rhys-Davies | United Kingdom | [161] |
| Tuareg – The Desert Warrior | Enzo G. Castellari | | Italy
Spain | [162] |
| Laurent Ferrier | Miou-Miou, Alain Souchon | France | [163] |
| The Warrior and the Sorceress | John C. Broderick | David Carradine, Luke Askew, María Socas | Argentina
United States | [164] |
| Wet Gold | Dick Lowry | Brooke Shields, Burgess Meredith, Tom Byrd, Brian Kerwin | United States | [165] |
| Wheels on Meals | Sammo Hung | Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung | Hong Kong | Adventure comedy[166] |
| Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold | Matt Cimber | Laurene Landon, Ken Roberson, Luis Lorenzo | Spain | [167] | |
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
|---|
| The Aviator | George Miller | Christopher Reeve, Rosanna Arquette, Jack Warden | United States | Romantic adventure, adventure drama[168] |
| Bill L. Norton | William Katt, Sean Young, Patrick McGoohan | United States | [169] |
| Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis | Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson | United States | Science fiction adventure[170] |
| Barbarian Queen | Hector Olivera | Lana Clarkson, Dawn Dunlap, Frank Zagarino | United States
Argentina | Fantasy adventure[171] |
| Black Arrow | John Hough | Oliver Reed, Fernando Rey, Donald Pleasence, Benedict Taylor | United States | [172] |
| The Black Cauldron | Ted Berman, Richard Rich | | United States | Animated film, fantasy adventure[173] |
| Burke & Wills | Graeme Clifford | Jack Thompson, Nigel Havers, Greta Scacchi | Australia | Adventure drama[174] |
| Francis Perrin | Francis Perrin, Véronique Genest, Bernard Blier | France | Adventure comedy[175] |
| The Corsican Brothers | Ian Sharp | Trevor Eve, Geraldine Chaplin, Donald Pleasence | United States | |
| The Emerald Forest | John Boorman | Powers Boothe, Meg Foster, Charley Boorman |
United States | Adventure drama[176] |
| Enemy Mine | Wolfgang Petersen | Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James | United States | Science fiction adventure[177] |
| Explorers | Joe Dante | Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson | United States | Space adventure[178] |
| Flesh and Blood | Paul Verhoeven | Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh | United States
Netherlands
Spain | [179] |
| The Goonies | Richard Donner | Sean Astin, Corey Feldman, Ke Huy Quan, Jeff Cohen, Josh Brolin, Martha Plimpton, Anne Ramsey, Robert Davi | United States | Adventure comedy[180] |
| The Jewel of the Nile | Lewis Teague | Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito | United States | Adventure comedy[181] |
| The Journey of Natty Gann | Jeremy Kagan | Meredith Salenger, John Cusack, Ray Wise | United States | Family-oriented adventure[182] |
| Jungle Raiders | Antonio Margheriti | | Italy | [183] |
| King David | Bruce Beresford | Richard Gere | United Kingdom
United States | [184] |
| King Solomon's Mines | J. Lee Thompson | Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom, John Rhys-Davies | United States | Romantic adventure[185] |
| The Knight of the Dragon | Fernando Colomo | | Spain | Fantasy adventure[186] |
| Ladyhawke | Richard Donner | Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer | United States | Fantasy adventure[187] |
| Legend | Ridley Scott | Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry | United Kingdom
United States | Fantasy adventure[188] |
| Seijun Suzuki, Shigetsu Yoshida | | Japan | Animated film[189] |
| Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | George Miller, George Ogilvie | Mel Gibson, Tina Turner | Australia | [190] |
| Tommaso Dazzi | Franco Nero, Francisco Rabal | Italy | [191] |
| Merlin and the Sword | Clive Donner | Malcolm McDowell, Candice Bergen, Edward Woodward, Dyan Cannon, Rupert Everett, Liam Neeson | United States | Fantasy adventure[192] |
| National Lampoon's European Vacation | Amy Heckerling | Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Dana Hill, Jason Lively | United States | [193] |
| Orion's Belt | Ola Solum (Norwegian version), Tristan de Vere Cole (English version) | Helge Jordal, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Hans Ola Sørlie, Kjersti Holmen | Norway | Arctic adventure[194] |
| Out of Africa | Sydney Pollack | Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer | United States | [195] [196] |
| Out of Control | Allan Holzman | Martin Hewitt, Betsy Russell, Claudia Udy, Andrew J. Lederer | United States
Yugoslavia | [197] |
| Pee-wee's Big Adventure | Tim Burton | Paul Reubens | United States |
, Tanya Roberts, Grace Jones, Patrick Macnee, Christopher Walken||United Kingdom||
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
|---|
| Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold | Newt Arnold, Gary Nelson | Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, James Earl Jones, Henry Silva | United States | Adventure comedy[208] |
| An American Tail | Don Bluth | Phillip Glasser (voice), Dom DeLuise (voice), Nehemiah Persoff (voice) | United States | Animated film, family-oriented adventure[209] |
| Babar and Father Christmas | Gerry Capelle | Laurent de Brunhoff (narrator), James Bradford (voice) | Canada | |
| Big Trouble in Little China | John Carpenter | Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong | | Action adventure comedy | |
| Biggles: Adventures in Time | John Hough | | | [210] |
| Castaway | Nicolas Roeg | Oliver Reed, Amanda Donohoe | United Kingdom | [211] |
| Castle in the Sky | Hayao Miyazaki | | Japan | Animated film, fantasy adventure[212] |
| The Clan of the Cave Bear | Michael Chapman | Daryl Hannah, Pamela Reed, James Remar | United States | [213] |
| The Climb | Donald Shebib | | Canada
United Kingdom | [214] |
| Crocodile Dundee | Peter Faiman | Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, Mark Blum, David Gulpilil, John Meillon, Michael Lombard, Reginald VelJohnson, Terry Gill, Steve Rackman, Gerry Skilton, David Bracks, Peter Turnbull, Caitlin Clarke, John Snyder, Anne Carlisle, Anne Francine, Paul Greco, Sullivan Walker | Australia
United States | [215] |
| Firewalker | J. Lee Thompson | Chuck Norris, Louis Gossett Jr., Melody Anderson, Will Sampson, Sonny Landham, John Rhys-Davies, Ian Abercrombie, Richard Lee-Sung, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, Álvaro Carcaño, John Hazelwood, Dale Payne, José Escandón, Mário Arévalo, Miguel Fuentes | United States | [216] |
| Florida Straits | Mike Hodges | Raúl Juliá, Fred Ward | United States | [217] |
| The Golden Child | Michael Ritchie | Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis | United States | Adventure comedy[218] |
| Robert Trevor Black | Jessica Black, Dan Dalton | United States | Adventure drama[219] |
| Highlander | Russell Mulcahy | Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, Roxanne Hart | United Kingdom
United States | Fantasy adventure[220] |
| Jake Speed | Andrew Lane | | United States | Adventure comedy[221] |
| King Kong Lives | John Guillermin | Brian Kerwin, Linda Hamilton | United States | [222] |
| Labyrinth | Jim Henson | Jennifer Connelly, David Bowie | United States | [223] |
| Meglio baciare un cobra | Massimo Pirri | | Italy | [224] |
| Le miniere del Kilimangiaro | Mino Guerrini | | Italy | [225] |
| Miracles | Jim Kouf | Tom Conti, Teri Garr, Paul Rodriguez, Christopher Lloyd | United States | Adventure comedy, romantic adventure[226] |
| The Mission | Roland Joffé | Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons | United Kingdom | [227] |
| The Mosquito Coast | Peter Weir | Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix | United States | Adventure drama[228] |
| Pirates | Roman Polanski | Walter Matthau, Damien Thomas, Charlotte Lewis, Cris Campion | France
Tunisia | [229] |
| Sarraounia | Med Hondo | Aï Keïta, Jéan-Roger Milo, Féodor Atkine | Burkina Faso
Mauritania
France | [230] |
| Shanghai Surprise | Jim Goddard | Sean Penn, Madonna, Paul Freeman | United Kingdom | [231] |
| Sky Bandits | Zoran Perisic | Scott McGinnis, Jeff Osterhage | United Kingdom | [232] |
| Sky Pirates | Colin Eggleston | John Hargreaves | Australia
| [233] |
| Solarbabies | Alan Johnson | Richard Jordan, Jami Gertz, Jason Patric | United States | [234] |
| SpaceCamp | Harry Winer | Kate Capshaw, Lea Thompson, Kelly Preston | United States | Space adventure[235] |
| Leonard Nimoy | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley | United States | [236] |
| Tai-Pan | Daryl Duke | Bryan Brown, Joan Chen, Kyra Sedgwick | United States | [237] |
| Toby McTeague | Jean-Claude Lord | | Canada | [238] |
| Where the River Runs Black | Christopher Cain | | United States | [239] | |
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
|---|
| The Adventure of the Action Hunters | Lee Bonner | Ronald Hunter, Sean Murphy | United States | [240] |
| Alla ricerca dell'impero sepolto | Gianfranco Parolini | Bruno Minniti, Kelly London, Larry Silva | Italy
Philippines | [241] |
| Armour of God | Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang | Jackie Chan, Alan Tam, Maria Dolores Forner | Hong Kong | Adventure comedy[242] |
| The Barbarians | Ruggero Deodato | David Paul, Peter Paul, Richard Lynch | United States | Fantasy adventure[243] |
| Benji the Hunted | Joe Camp | Benji, Red Steagall, Nancy Francis | United States | Family-oriented adventure[244] |
| Captain James Cook | Lawrence Gordon Clark | Keith Mitchell | Australia | [245] |
| Caribe | Michael Kennedy | John Savage, Kara Glover, Stephen McHattie | Canada | [246] |
| | Richard Berry, Jean Yanne, Anna Karina | France | [247] |
| A Chinese Ghost Story | Ching Siu Tung | Leslie Cheung, Wong Tsu Hsien, Wu Ma | Hong Kong | Fantasy adventure[248] |
| The Chipmunk Adventure | Janice Karman | | United States | Animated film, family-oriented adventure[249] |
| Cobra Verde | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw, José Lewgoy | West Germany
Benin
Ghana | Adventure drama[250] |
| Vadim Glowna | Jürgen Prochnow, Sam Waterston, Suzanna Hamilton, Mario Adorf, Dominique Pinon | West Germany | [251] |
| Down Twisted | Albert Pyun | Carey Lowell, Charles Rocket | United States | [252] |
| Going Bananas | Boaz Davidson | Dom DeLuise, Herbert Lom | United States | Adventure comedy[253] |
| Gor | Fritz Kiersch | Urbano Barberini, Rebecca Ferratti, Oliver Reed | United States
South Africa | [254] |
| Hot Pursuit | Steven Lisberger | John Cusack, Robert Loggia | United States | Adventure comedy[255] |
| Hotel Colonial | | John Savage, Rachel Ward, Robert Duvall, Massimo Troisi | Italy
United States | [256] |
| Ishtar | Elaine May | Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani | United States | Adventure comedy[257] |
| Jane and the Lost City | Terry Marcel | Kirsten Hughes, Sam J. Jones, Maud Adams | | Adventure comedy[258] |
| The Lighthorsemen | Simon Wincer | Jon Blake, Peter Phelps, Tony Bonner, Bill Kerr, John Walton, Gary Sweet, Tim McKenzie, Shane Briant, Serge Lazareff, Sigrid Thornton, Anthony Andrews, Ralph Cotterill, Patrick Frost, Anthony Hawkins, Gerard Kennedy, Jon Sidney, Graham Dow | Australia | War adventure[259] |
| Lionheart | Franklin J. Schaffner | Eric Stoltz, Gabriel Byrne, Nicola Cowper, Dexter Fletcher, Deborah Moore, Nicholas Clay | United States | [260] |
| The Living Daylights | John Glen | Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo, Jeroen Krabbé, Joe Don Baker, John Rhys-Davies, Desmond Llewelyn, Robert Brown | United Kingdom | [261] |
| Master of Dragonard Hill | Gérard Kikoïne | Patrick Warburton, Oliver Reed, Eartha Kitt, Herbert Lom | United Kingdom | [262] |
| Masters of the Universe | Gary Goddard | Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Meg Foster, Courteney Cox, Robert Duncan McNeill | United States | Fantasy adventure[263] |
| Mio in the Land of Faraway | Vladimir Grammatikov | | Sweden
Soviet Union
Norway | Fantasy adventure[264] |
| Rudolf Steiner, | Armin Mueller-Stahl, | West Germany | [265] |
| Pathfinder | Nils Gaup | | Norway | [266] |
| The Princess Bride | Rob Reiner | Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin | United States | [267] |
| Race to Danger | Tommaso Dazzi | Franco Nero, Barbara De Rossi | Italy | [268] |
| The Rogues | Mario Monicelli | Giancarlo Giannini, Enrico Montesano, Giuliana De Sio | Italy
Spain | [269] |
| Straight to Hell | Alex Cox | Dick Rude, Sy Richardson, Courtney Love, Joe Strummer, Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones, Elvis Costello, Jim Jarmusch | United Kingdom
Spain
United States | [270] |
| Sidney J. Furie | Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper | United States | [271] |
| Treasure of the Moon Goddess | José Luis García Agraz | Asher Brauner, Linnea Quigley, Don Calfa | United States
Mexico | [272] |
| | Richard Bohringer, Larry Lamb, Rufus, Pierre Malet | France | [273] |
| White Water Summer | Jeff Bleckner | Kevin Bacon, Sean Astin | United States | Adventure drama[274] |
| Yeelen | Souleyman Cisse | Issiaka Kane, Niamonto Sanogo | Mali
Burkina Faso
France | Adventure drama[275] | |
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
|---|
| Ada in the Jungle | Gérard Zingg | Richard Bohringer, Victoria Abril, Isaach de Bankolé | France
Côte d'Ivoire | [276] |
| The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Terry Gilliam | John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle | | [277] |
| Alien from L.A. | Albert Pyun | Kathy Ireland | United States
South Africa | Science fiction adventure[278] |
| The Bear | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Tchéky Karyo, Jack Wallace | France | Adventure drama, family-oriented adventure[279] |
| The Beast | Kevin Reynolds | George Dzundza, Jason Patric, Steven Bauer | United States | [280] |
| The Big Blue | Luc Besson | Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette | France
United States | Romantic adventure, sea adventure[281] |
| Bloodstone | Dwight H. Little | Brett Stimely, Anna Nicholas, Rajinikanth | United States
India | Action adventure[282] |
| Captive Rage | Cedric Sundstrom | Oliver Reed, Robert Vaughn, Lisa Rinna | South Africa | [283] |
| Chouans! | Philippe de Broca | Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Lambert Wilson, Jean-Pierre Cassel | France | [284] |
| Crocodile Dundee II | John Cornell | Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon, Hechter Ubarry, Juan Fernández, Charles S. Dutton, Kenneth Welsh, Stephen Root, Dennis Boutsikaris, Ernie Dingo, Steve Rackman, Gerry Skilton, Gus Mercurio, Susie Essman, Colin Quinn, Luis Guzman, Alec Wilson, Jim Holt, Bill Sandy, Jace Alexander | Australia
United States | Adventure comedy[285] |
| The Deceivers | Nicholas Meyer | Pierce Brosnan, Saeed Jaffrey, Shashi Kapoor | India
United Kingdom
United States | Adventure drama[286] |
| El Dorado | Carlos Saura | Omero Antonutti, Lambert Wilson | Spain
France | Adventure drama[287] |
| The Firing Line | Jun Gallardo | Reb Brown, Shannon Tweed | United States
Philippines | War adventure[288] |
| The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck | David Keith | David Keith, Kathy Shower, Brant Van Hoffman | United States | Adventure comedy[289] |
| The Gamble | Carlo Vanzina | Matthew Modine, Faye Dunaway, Jennifer Beals | Italy | [290] |
| The Gods Must Be Crazy 2 | Jamie Uys | N!xau, Lena Farugia, Hans Strydom | South Africa
United States
Botswana | Adventure comedy[291] |
| Gorillas in the Mist | Michael Apted | Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris | United States
Zaire
Rwanda | Adventure drama[292] |
| The Great Outdoors | Howard Deutch | John Candy, Dan Aykroyd | United States | Adventure comedy[293] |
| The Land Before Time | Don Bluth | Pat Hingle (voice), Gabriel Damon (voice), Candace Hutson (voice), Judith Barsi (voice), Will Ryan (voice) | United States | Adventure Animated |
| The Lion of Africa | Kevin Connor | Brian Dennehy, Brooke Adams | United States | [294] |
| Mercenary Fighters | Riki Shelach Nissimoff | Peter Fonda, Reb Brown, Ron O'Neal, James Mitchum | United States | [295] |
| My Neighbor Totoro | Hayao Miyazaki | Chika Sakamoto (voice), Noriko Hidaka (voice), Hitoshi Takagi (voice) | Japan | Animated film, family-oriented adventure[296] |
| Natura contro | Antonio Climati | Marco Merlo, Fabrizio Merlo, May Deseligny | Italy | [297] |
| Vincent Ward | Bruce Lyons, Chris Haywood, Hamish McFarlane | Australia
New Zealand | Fantasy adventure[298] |
| Outlaw of Gor | John Cardos | Urbano Barberini, Rebecca Ferratti, Jack Palance | United States
South Africa | Fantasy adventure[299] |
| Rambo III | Peter MacDonald | Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna | United States | War adventure[300] |
| The Rescue | Ferdinand Fairfax | Kevin Dillon, Marc Price, Ned Vaughn | United States | [301] |
| Space Mutiny | David Winters, Neal Sundstorm | Reb Brown, John Phillip Law, James Ryan | United States | Space adventure[302] |
| Tusks | Tara Moore | John Rhys-Davies, Andrew Stevens, Lucy Gutteridge, Julian Glover | United States | [303] |
| Vibes | Ken Kwapis | Jeff Goldblum, Cyndi Lauper, Peter Falk | United States | Romantic adventure, adventure comedy[304] |
| Willow | Ron Howard | Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davis | United States
United Kingdom | Fantasy adventure[305] | |
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
|---|
| The Abyss | James Cameron | Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn | United States | [306] |
| The Adventures of Milo and Otis | Masanori Hata | Dudley Moore (narrator) | Japan
United States | Family-oriented adventure[307] |
| | Heiner Lauterbach, Deborah Lacey, Julien Guiomar, Dietmar Schönherr | West Germany | [308] |
| Alan Bunce | | Canada
France | Animated film, family-oriented adventure[309] |
| Back to the Future Part II | Robert Zemeckis | Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson | United States | [310] |
| Batman | Tim Burton | Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger | United States | [311] |
| Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Stephen Herek | Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin | United States | [312] |
| Cheetah | Jeff Blyth | Keith Coogan, Lucy Deakins | United States | [313] |
| Crusoe | Caleb Deschanel | Aidan Quinn, Adé Sapara, Elvis Payne | United States
| [314] |
| Erik the Viking | Terry Jones | Tim Robbins, Gary Cady, Mickey Rooney | United Kingdom
United States | Fantasy adventure[315] |
| Farewell to the King | John Milius | Nick Nolte | United States | War adventure[316] |
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Steven Spielberg | | United States | Adventure comedy[317] |
| Indio | Antonio Margheriti | Francesco Quinn, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Brian Dennehy | Italy | [318] |
| Jewel of the Gods | Robert Van der Coolwijk | Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo | South Africa | [319] |
| Joan of Arc of Mongolia | Ulrike Ottinger | Delphine Seyrig, Irm Hermann, Peter Kern | West Germany
France | Romantic adventure[320] |
| The Lady and the Highwayman | John Hough | Hugh Grant, Oliver Reed, Michael York, Claire Bloom, Lysette Anthony, Emma Samms, Robert Morley | United Kingdom | [321] |
| Marrakech Express | Gabriele Salvatores | Diego Abatantuono, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Cristina Marsillach | Italy | [322] |
| Franco Piavoli | | Italy | [323] |
| Old Gringo | Luis Puenzo | Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits | United States | [324] |
| The Return of the Musketeers | Richard Lester | Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay, Christopher Lee, Kim Cattrall, Geraldine Chaplin, Philippe Noiret, C. Thomas Howell | France
Spain
United Kingdom | [325] |
| River of Death | Steve Carver | Michael Dudikoff, Robert Vaughn, Donald Pleasence, Herbert Lom, L. Q. Jones | United States | [326] |
| The Secret of the Ice Cave | Radu Gabrea | Sally Kellerman, Michael Moriarty | United States | Family-oriented adventure[327] |
| Sinbad of the Seven Seas | Enzo G. Castellari | Lou Ferrigno | Italy | Fantasy adventure[328] |
| Slipstream | Steven Lisberger | Mark Hamill, Kitty Aldridge, Bill Paxton, Bob Peck, Ben Kingsley, F. Murray Abraham | United States | Science fiction adventure[329] |
| William Shatner | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley | United States | [330] | |
